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One of my readers told me recently that he thought my newspaper column last year about how I love to eat the buds of those orange day lilies, which are thicker in the summer than thorns on a locust, was all a tongue-in-cheek effort to try to get gullible folks to do something silly.
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By Larry Dablemont, Outdoors Columnist
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7/1/26
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My teachers didn’t really approve of me working after school at Dad and Grandpa’s pool hall. One of the older lady teachers said I was spending too much of my time in that pool hall with a bunch of aging prevaricators.
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By Larry Dablemont, Outdoors Columnist
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6/27/26
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For instance, Field & Stream held a fishing contest, offering a host of outdoor equipment prizes in various categories. One entry drew more space in the magazine than any other topic but the war. It was a 16-pound smallmouth bass caught by George T. Magraw, M.D.
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By Larry Dablemont, Outdoors Columnist
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6/20/26
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If I were ever asked to list the 10 things I have enjoyed the most in my life as a fisherman, not too far down the line I would list, “watching a bobber.” It was one of life’s greatest pleasures in my youth.
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By Larry Dablemont, Outdoors Columnist
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6/13/26
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As a 17-year-old freshman at School of the Ozarks College in the mid-'60s, I studied fishing mostly! With Table Rock Lake so close, and my having a key to the gate and boat on the school’s property at a place called Clevinger Cove, you knew where I would be on the weekends.
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By Larry Dablemontm, Outdoors Columnist
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6/9/26
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University of Missouri Extension specialists are urging farmers, gardeners, hunters, anglers and other outdoor enthusiasts to take precautions against ticks by treating clothing with permethrin, a repellent that both repels and kills ticks.
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By Linda Geist, Writer University of Missouri Extension
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5/30/26
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There are high school graduation ceremonies going on around the country this month, causing me to remember mine, back in Houston High School in the '60s.
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By Larry Dablemont, Outdoors Columnist
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5/30/26
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West Plains-area residents looking for outdoor activities this year have several birding locations within driving distance as Mark Twain National Forest launches its “2026 Flight Path” initiative.
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By Lane Reeves, Quill Contributing Writer
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5/23/26
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If I write a second book about turkey hunting, one of the stories would be about the spring that I took Dr. David Fell on a hunt in Texas County, in the heart of the Ozarks. Dr. Fell was a client from Oklahoma, an ophthalmological surgeon well known in the Midwest.
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By Larry Dablemont Outdoors Columnist
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5/23/26
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